Yad
Vashem - The Righteous Among the Nations

The Yad Vashem museum
in Israel, founded in 1953, honors both Holocaust martyrs and "the Righteous
Among the Nations," Gentile (non-Jewish) rescuers who have been recognized
for their "compassion, courage and morality" because they "risked their
lives to save the lives of Jews." Poland ranks first among 40 nations
with 6,266 men and women, almost one-third of the total, despite the fact
that only in Poland were citizens (and their loved ones) immediately executed
if caught trying to save Jews.

Many prominent Jews
and their families owe their lives to these brave but rarely acknowledged
people. For example, Abraham Foxman, director of the Anti-Defamation League
of B'nai Brith/USA, was saved by a Polish Catholic nanny who had him baptized
as a Catholic and began raising him as her son in order to save him. -
Edward Lucaire

Righteous Among the Nations - per Country & Ethnic Origin January 1, 2011

These figures are not necessarily an indication of the actual number of rescuers in each country, but reflect the cases that were made available to Yad Vashem.

Albania

69

Latvia

129

Armenia

19

Lithuania

800

Austria

88

Luxembourg

1

Belarus

555

Macedonia

10

Belgium

1,584

Moldova

79

Bosnia

40

Montenegro

1

Brazil

2

Netherlands**

5,108

Bulgaria

19

Norway

47

Chile

1

Poland

6,266

China

2

Portugal

2

Croatia

102

Romania

60

Czech Republic

108

Russia

173

Denmark*

22

Serbia

131

El Salvador

1

Slovakia

522

Estonia

3

Slovenia

6

France

3,331

Spain

4

Georgia

1

Sweden

10

Germany

495

Switzerland

45

Great Britiain
(Incl. Scotland)

14

Turkey

1

Greece

307

Ukraine

2,363

Hungary

764

USA

3

Italy

498

Vietnam

1

Japan

1

Total: 23,788

* The Danish Underground requested that all its members who participated in the rescue of the Jewish community not be listed individually, but commemorated as one group.

** Includes two persons originally from Indonesia, but residing in the Netherlands.